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Teach to Reach: The questions health workers cannot solve alone (article 1 of 4)
Teach to Reach is the largest peer learning platform, network, and community by and for health and humanitarian workers — launched by The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) in January 2021 out of an immunization training programme during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now in its fifth year. As part of TGLF’s tenth anniversary, each month a…
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Climate change and health: 8 take-aways from community-based responses
In Niger, the rains in 2024 were heavier than anyone alive could remember. Elders told Sidikou Issaka Maiga that they had never seen rainfall destroy so much in such a short time. The flooding washed away tracks, drowned crops, and cut whole villages off from the nearest health facility. The seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign was…
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Nouvelles perspectives: les acteurs locaux mènent la réponse face aux impacts du changement climatique sur la santé
English | Français GENÈVE, 4 juin 2026 (La Fondation Apprendre Genève) – La saison des pluies suivait autrefois un rythme que tout le monde connaissait. À partir de 2021, les grandes pluies de novembre, décembre, et février ont cessé de se comporter comme avant. La rivière Lubiji a débordé plus longtemps. Le seul moyen de…
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New insights report: Health workers are leading community responses to climate change impacts on health
English | Français GENEVA, 4 June 2026 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) – The rainy season used to follow a pattern that everyone knew. From 2021 onwards, the heavy rains in November, December, and February stopped behaving as they used to. The Lubiji river overflowed for longer. The only crossing to the maternity hospital, a pirogue,…
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TGLF Scholar Newsletter #3: How to boost your career and grow as a leader
The Geneva Learning Foundation Scholar Newsletter, issue 3 (7 May 2026) Dear Reader You can do three things this week that will change the way you work. Each one takes less than three minutes. First, enroll today in the new malaria course. Need help to enroll? Watch the two-minute tutorial. It is built on what…
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TGLF welcomes Panu Saaristo as first Fellow for humanitarian health
Panu Saaristo is our first Fellow for humanitarian health We are pleased to announce that Panu Saaristo has accepted our invitation to become the First Fellow for Humanitarian Health of The Geneva Learning Foundation. The title is thematic rather than honorific. TGLF Fellowships sit inside specific fields of practice, and humanitarian health is a field…
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World Malaria Day: what frontline health workers are saying about malaria, and why it matters
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is pleased to announce ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’, the first peer learning course by and for health workers. Learn more about the course… Enroll now in English or French. This article is based on experiences shared by health workers during the live event ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’ on 23 April…
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What is the future of International Geneva? Insights from the CAGI report
In April 2026, the International Geneva Welcome Center (known as “CAGI”, its French acronym) published the results of a survey of 108 international NGOs based in Geneva. The findings are sobering for anyone running or working in one of these organizations. They also help frame a broader conversation that The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) and…
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World Immunization Week: 5 years of visual storytelling by and for the people who make vaccines work
During World Immunization Week, Gifty Akosua Adzigbey, an interpreter for the deaf community in Ghana’s Mankrong health district, shared a photo of her daily work. She had spent the week, as she spent most weeks, moving between vaccination posts and households where parents with hearing disabilities needed a translator, and sometimes needed to be walked…
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Turning the tide: 8 practical insights to end malaria
This article walks through the eight findings and the recommendations based on the report ‘Malaria: Turning the Tide’. These findings have specific relevance for community health workers, managers and planners, and global partners. The full report carries more contributors, more countries, and more operational detail than any single article can. Read it. Practical knowledge you…
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